Novelty doll



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Oct. '2s 1924. 1,513,312

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UNITED YSTATES PATENT erstes.;

LULU CASE, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

NOVELTY DOLL. f

Application filed February 19, 1923. VSerial No. 620,045.

My invention relates to a novelty doll and has for its primary object to utilize certain existing materials which while ordinarily produced for other purposes happen to offer an opportunity of utilizing the same in pro ducing a doll without in any way destroying the intended use of the materials should the purchaser desire to take the doll apart.

' To more clearly explain the salient features of the invention and the use that I have made of the materials required I propose to take an ordinary so culled wash cloth and a cake of soap and without in anyway destroying or otherwise impairing their intended use produce a Yunique novelty, doll with the assembly of the ymaterials `so accomplished that the user may take the doll apart so as to speak and use both the Wash cloth and the cake of soap iu the customary manner. Y

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure l is a perspective view of the assembly, Figure 2 is a detail view showing the finished folding or arranging the cloth to produce the garment or body portion of the doll and Figure 3 is a detail perspective View ofa cake of soap used for the dolls ahead.

Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7 show progressive steps in folding the cloth.

Referring now to the drawing in detail (A) represents an ordinary wash cloth, best shown in its original form in dotted lines in Figure 2, (B) represents a cake of soap as best shown in Figure 3 and (C) represents the box or container in which the assembly is offered for sale and which also co-operate to better hold the doll in assembled condition.

In assembling the arrangement to produce the body of the doll from the wash cloth I prefer to fold the cloth (A) to leave the edges (A1) meeting along a medial line so as to produce the front decorative seam (A2) of the garment. The bottom of the double thickness thus produced by the fold described may be turned up as best shown at (A3,). 'Io produce thehooded cape effect (A4)k the double thickness at the top of the cloth maybe folded upon itself to leave shoulders (AF) and a pocket (A6) for the reception of the cake ofvsoap (B) with the pocket simulating a hood for the dolls head.

In producing vthe bodyifrom the cloth emphasis should be laid on the factV that the cloth is not cut or manipulated in any manner whatsoever that will destroy its usefulness as a wash cloth if thedoll is ever taken apart. The cake of soap (B) should in most cases ordinarily be round and one side of the same is painted'to simulate a dolls face as shown. l

Since the cake of soap isfsolid and consequently quite heavy as compared to the cloth I suggest that the hood beso formed as to tightlyfit around the soap so that the face will not be displaced, and as the assembly is offered to the trade in a containerthe soap may bever f nicely anchored, so to speak, in the container by sewing or otherwise fixing the body to the container asbest shown by the stitches (A7) in Figure .2. y To maintain the hood and cape effect as well as to hold the soap in place stitches (AS) may be taken in the'folds of the cape but these. stitches need not necessarily extend through the container. The fixing of the body to the container as well as the stitches (A8) hold the soap in place and also properly support the body in the container. A

The face on the soap may be produced by hand painting', stamping or in any other way that will prove to advantage. t

The steps in folding the Wash cloth to form the combined doll body and garment are shown in Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7.

In considering these figures it should be observed that a wash cloth is of soft thick rough material of the general form shown in Figure i and it is to a certain extent the nature of the material which makes possible the final clothed bodyform as shown complete in perspective in Figure 1 and where the evident bulk of the body is due to the doubled thickness of the folded thick cloth, and the cowl or hooded cape is obtained by forming the upwardly turned toi-p edges into an open pocket and tensioning the pocket by seams'AS and at the bow A9.

The cloth shown in Figure l is first folded side edges A1, to meet along the line m-a as shown in Figure 5. Then the lower edge A10 is folded upward to the line :im to forni the article sho-wn .n Figure G.

A few light stitches are taken along the folded meeting edges AJ either before or after turning up the lower end.

lt will now be observed that thel upper end forms ay tubular body open at (l1) and for a distance down the meeting line of the edges A1.

This upper open end is brought at rightangles to the plane oi1 the body by turning the free corners (l2) downward, as progressively indicated by the dotted lines a, b, c, d on `Fig/nire 5, and tucking it under at `shown to the lett of Figure 7, then bringing the edges (le) around to the position and placing a few stitches at each side of the neck at AS as explained. The bottom layer or cloth may be stitched at A7 tothe pasteboard container either Abefore or valiter folding as described, and the soap face may be placed in position either before or after securing the corners of the cloth adja cent the chin part of the face by a` lribbon bow A9 and which, latter may be either pinned or stitched across the meeting coi'- ners of ythe cloth at this point.

In forming theopen neck face as described, the cloth drawn away from the upper corners thus reducing the width above the shouldersyA5 as shown in Figure. l. lf desired an additional stitch or bow and stitch :may be placed at the edge of the face opening as shown at (16) to slightly more contract the edge of the opening.

ln some cases the container (C) instead 'for thesoap is naturally of being an ordinary paste board box iii-ay simulate. a cradle bed or other appropriate device which will serve as a` container, at

.the vsaine time lend novel appearance to the elty. Possibilities oit the assembly are such' as to create a ready sale ot the device sin-ce purchasers will realize that although they are primarily purchasing a novelty doll the cost price will be well within a reasonable charge or the material alone.

l claim:

l. A novelty doll made from a cloth and a loose head, the cloth being `folded around the head in simulation of a body and exposing the face to view, means! securing the cloth in position around the head, a box iii which the doll is placed and means securing the body of the doll vto the box at a point adjacent the head. Y

2. A novelty doll made from a wash cloth and a. cake ot soap, the cloth being folded around the edge of the calze of soap vin simu-- lation of a hooded cape, and exposing one side of the soap to view to simulate ay face, means securing the cloth about the soap, a box in which the doll is placed, and means securing the cloth to the box under ,the ca re of soap.

LULU CASE. 

